Impact Advisor

**About PIDG**

At the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG), we get infrastructure finance moving and multiplying - accelerating climate action and sustainable development where most urgently needed. We work with public and private partners to bridge financing gaps, directing capital and expertise into projects that promote climate resilience and sustainable growth. Working throughout the project lifecycle, we reduce financial risk, transform markets, and build local capacity, creating a deep and lasting impact.

We are a group of companies that work together to improve lives throughout south and south-east Asia and Africa. Active since 2002, over 70% of our investments have been either in countries classified as Least Developed Countries or Fragile and Conflict Affected States. These are the countries where infrastructure gaps are the largest and most urgent and where the population is youngest and growing fastest. These are also the countries that contributed the least to climate change and yet are suffering the worse impacts, in some of the regions with the richest biodiversity left on the planet, which is quickly being depleted.

Building on a pioneering track record of integrating climate and inclusion considerations in infrastructure investment, we launched a new 2030 strategy which makes action on climate and nature, together with sustainable development through new and improved infrastructure, the central purpose of all we do.

**About the Role**

The primary purpose of the role is to provide input into the regular impact review of prospective PIDG investments and the monitoring of the impact performance of existing PIDG investments. The role will take primary responsibility for deals generated by PIDG project development arm (InfraCo) in Asia, although they will also be involved in other deals and develop specific thematic expertise in line with the priorities of PIDG Impact function.

**Main Responsibilities**

Sustainable Impact Review of prospective investments:

- Provide quality input to the regular ex ante review of prospective deals as part of PIDG Impact review and sign off process of new investments, by identifying and reviewing (positive) sustainable development impact claims for new investments.
- For selected investments, liaise with the investment team, project stakeholders and clients under the supervision of senior colleagues
- For selected investments, draft the relevant analysis and documentation for the impact clinic for review by the lead impact expert associated to the deal.

Results update:

- For selected investments - primarily those in the portfolio of PIDG project development arm (InfraCo) in Asia, or others as assigned by the Sustainable Impact Director, ensure timely update of project results in PIDG Compass (PIDG database) under the supervision of the impact expert responsible for the investment.
- Contribute to the impact component of project self-evaluations and end-users’ surveys as directed by the Sustainable Impact Director and Impact Manger
- Occasionally conduct monitoring visits of PIDG investments.

Thematic focus:

- Progressively take responsibility to develop PIDG applied expertise on specific themes relevant to PIDG Impact function.

Contribution to PIDG Impact team:

- Contribute to continuous development of PIDG Impact team as a centre of excellence in infrastructure investment.

**Essential Criteria**
- Degree in a relevant economics, finance, statistics, social science, international development or other relevant discipline
- Advanced degree in one of the relevant disciplines (desirable)

Skills & Experience:

- Demonstrate work experience in a relevant field, preferably within development finance institution, (impact) investment or management consultancy industry.
- Experience/understanding of private sector development, impact management and achieving development outcomes through investments
- Experience/understanding of the infrastructure sector and analysis of the socio-economic impact of infrastructure (desirable).
- Experience/understanding of assessing climate change risks and impacts of investments (desirable).
- Work experience in developing countries, preferably in South and South East Asia or Africa (desirable).
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership for delivery of high-quality deliverables, organising self and others to meet agreed deadlines.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines while working with ambiguity.
- Ability to work quickly and efficiently on multiple projects.